Quotes on Fear

Learning from people far wiser than I, here are some wonderful quotes related to fear.

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”

― Ambrose Redmoon

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

― Frank Herbert

“Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.”

― Jarod Kintz

“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”

― Paulo Coelho

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

― Jim Morrison

“There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.”

― Lemony Snicket

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”

― Dan Brown

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

― Plato

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

― John Lennon

“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”